Taxonomy editor

You can use the Taxonomy editor to create and modify taxonomies that are created with the Create Taxonomy wizard. Terms are the leaf entries of a taxonomy, for example, products or stores. These leaf entries can be read from a dictionary or a database table. You can create leaf entries with the Taxonomy editor. You can build a level hierarchy for the terms by creating levels and assigning terms to these levels.

The Taxonomy editor consists of the following parts:

Unassigned Entries
Taxonomy Tree

Unassigned Entries

On the left side of the Taxonomy editor, the list of unassigned entries contains terms that are not yet added to the hierarchy. All terms that are created in the Taxonomy editor or the terms that are imported from a dictionary are first put into this list for later assignment to the hierarchy.

The terms are sorted alphabetically. You can filter the terms by typing text strings in the Filter entry field.

By right-clicking the table, you can cut, edit, delete or add a term.

The Unassigned Entries section provides the following items:

Add a new term

You can add new terms by clicking this icon and replacing the default name New Term with the name to be used. You can also press Ctrl-T.

When the new term is added to the list of unassigned terms, the default name is marked for editing, so you can edit the default name instantly.

If you add new terms, filtering is switched off.

Remove selected terms

You can remove terms by selecting the terms to be removed and clicking this icon. You can also press Delete.

Export Taxonomy

Clicking this icon opens the Export wizard.

Synchronize taxonomy with dictionary

Clicking this icon opens the Synchronize Dictionary with Taxonomy wizard.

Filter

By typing a text string in the Filter entry field, only the terms that match the specified text string are displayed in the list of unassigned terms.

If you do not want to filter the terms in the list, clear the Filter check box.

You can use wildcards for filtering. For example, to display only the terms that start with the text string web, type *web in the Filter entry field. To display only the terms that do not start with the text string web, type -web in the Filter entry field.

Unassigned Terms

If you create a taxonomy from a dictionary, the terms are added to the Unassigned Terms list. From this list, you can add the terms to a taxonomy hierarchy.

Taxonomy Tree

On the right side of the Taxonomy editor, the taxonomy tree is displayed. In the taxonomy tree, you can create hierarchy levels of the tree nodes, add terms from the list of unassigned terms to the tree nodes, or move the nodes or the terms within the taxonomy tree.

You can change the description of a node or a term in the taxonomy tree by right-clicking a term and selecting Edit from the popup menu, or by pressing F2.

You can also cut, or delete a tree node, or you can remove or add levels.

The root node of the taxonomy tree is a fixed object. You cannot rename, delete, or export the root node of a taxonomy tree.

The Taxonomy Tree section contains the following items:

Edit

Remove Level

You might want to remove a hierarchy level but keep its sub hierarchy. To do this, you can move the subtree before deleting the level. You can also collapse a level. The selected level is removed and the sub terms and levels are added to the parent level of the selected hierarchy level.

Add a new level

Clicking this icon adds a new sublevel to the selected taxonomy level in the taxonomy tree. You can also press Ctrl_L.

If a term is selected, new levels are added as subnodes to the first selected level or as subnodes to the parent level of the first selected term.

Remove selected entries

Clicking this icon removes the selected taxonomy levels including sub-trees and sub-hierarchies from the taxonomy tree.

Selected terms and terms that are children of selected nodes are moved to the list of unassigned terms.

Filter

By typing a text string in the Filter entry field, only the folders that match the specified text string are displayed in the taxonomy tree.

If you do not want to filter the terms in the list, clear the Filter check box.

Taxonomy tree

By default, the taxonomy tree contains a root node. This root node cannot be renamed, deleted, or exported.

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